Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

Be a true romantic. Always ruminate about the true beauty of life.

Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.

If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist.

All cats look gray in the dark.

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.